Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Each a penannular tapering hoop with graduated bulbs forming a ribbed profile. 50 grams total, 65 mm each



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Comprising a large quantity of variously shaped beads in lapis lazuli, red jasper, rock crystal, glass and other materials. 78.4 grams total, 2-14 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Glass is the premier bead material. Invented in the Middle East around 2500 B. C., glass making spread slowly. There are mainly two types of beads, drawn beads (when the tubes are cut in a short segments, which are usually agitated over heat to smooth off the sharp edges) or wound beads (made by wrapping molten glass around a rock, stick or wire. Once the bead is built up, it can be further pressed or paddled into shape, placed in a mould, or decorated with other colours of glass.

Restrung group of graduated beads, mainly oblate and annular types with amulet centrepiece. 11.16 grams, 33 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With large central hole, incised frieze of a seated figure receiving an offering from a figure in floor-length pleated garment, second figure behind him in a fringed robe, column of cuneiform text to the rear: En-Nanna, [son of ] ... is your servant. 8.24 grams, 33 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.065. London collection, 2016.

Modelled in the round with stub arms and pointillé strap detailing, possibly Balkans. 15.7 grams, 54 mm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Broad flat-section penannular band with bands of punched pellets, solar discs, herringbone and other ornament. 72.6 grams, 70 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Restrung necklace of irregular garnet oblate beads with interspersed lapis lazuli beads carved in the form of a perching bird. 37.7 grams, 37 cm



with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.

Comprising several hundred mixed small beads, mostly round or tubular forms, in red carnelian and other materials; all pierced for stringing. 108 grams total, 4-19 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Restrung group of graduated tubular beads and annular beads in glass and stone. 28.6 grams, 33.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Restrung; composed of graduated beads of various types, including biconical, tubular, oval, irregular and other types. 33 grams, 50 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Restrung group of seed beads in various materials with amethyst dangle centrepiece. 6.1 grams, 39.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Tubular in form with tapering profile and collar above the socket. 493 grams, 89 mm



Ex London, UK, gentleman's collection, 1990s.